Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. Maybe it’s the same with some of you, too.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

This is an amazing April Fool’s idea from the Frederic Remington Art Museum : Their annual April Fool’s Day Ball invites users to contribute at normal event-pricing tiers (attendance, attendance + pre-party, attendance + after-party), but then not show up. Art Show and Silent Auction. Drive-in or outdoor Movie Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2008

What is a Museum without YouTube? Looks like reviewed the YouTube channels for museums. The videos include short promotions, almost like movie trailers promoting an exhibit. The videos that give a peek behind the scenes at the museum have the most views, like this one of another sculpture installation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

How can arts and cultural organizations start leveraging content marketing? Surely this doesn’t apply to zoos, museums, and theaters does it? There are 5 steps to start a content marketing program at your arts and cultural organization. Arts and cultural organizations have an unfair advantage when it comes to content creation.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Not ready to step back into a movie theater yet? Give your donors the full movie night experience with a virtual viewing party. Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Student art show. Viewing party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

As someone who spent half her career working for and with arts organizations this news makes me sad: A report yesterday from the USAToday that quotes Bob Lynch , the President of Americans for the Arts estimating that 10,000 arts organizations will close this year, 10% of the total number.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. I've learned so much from my dad about making art, putting on a great show, inviting audience participation , and navigating celebrity. They were featured in the movie Grease. I loved the piece. Here's that chapter.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. I believe that the ability to take photographs (no flash) in a museum greatly increases many people''s abilities to personalize, memorialize, and enjoy the experience. The posts come from an aptly-named blog: Grumpy Art Historian.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. Art-themed Auction. Appeal to this audience with an art-themed auction! Movie Nights.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2013

And thanks to you for engaging with their posts and with the reruns from the Museum 2.0 She knits together nostalgia and activism with a level of nuance rarely found in debates about the value of museums, libraries, and other cultural spaces. In a useful post, Doug Borwick suggests that art is like baseball: declining in relevance.

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JUNE 8, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. Imagine you are considering going out to see a movie. You feel confident you’ll enjoy that movie. I wrote this book because of a fundamental curiosity about what relevance is and how it works. You buy a ticket.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

By Scott Gilman : Louisville Cardinals, horse racing, nonprofits, music, movies, various rants. Think Speed-Dating, Not Dinner and A Movie. Tweets about #marketing, #nonprofit and #nptech,#arts and #museum best practices. Movie lover & Tech geek. Know Your Type. Find Scott On Twitter. Find Ryan On Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. But we don''t yet know whether that person will be focusing primarily on booking movie nights or launching sketching clubs or engaging buskers. It''s an exciting, intense, educational time.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2020

– Jose Orora, The San Diego Museum of Art . We send group emails where we give each other book, movie , and TV recommendations , and also touch base on what’s going on in our lives.” . . – Patti Holmes, Jack and Jill Children’s Center . “Don’t work on your bed. A table is a better place to focus.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. That business really caught on, and it produced support for the museum. For example, our music, our movies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. As a reuse organization, its motto is "make art, not waste." Cary Creative Center has an art materials reuse store where people in the community can buy pretty much anything an arts teacher might want.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2011

Remember the movie Back to the Future II , where Marty McFly travels to the future in a flying Delorean? What application could this have for: Visitation – Parks, zoos, museums, etc. Author: Noel Beebe. My eleven-year-old self was convinced that we would all be flying in cars and eating re-hydrated pizza by the year 2015.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 3, 2007

At ASTC 2006, Darcie Fohrman talked about an exhibition called QUESTION at the Cantor Arts Center in Stanford in 2004. The staff brought in Darcie and artist Michael Brown to help them create "An experiment that provokes questions about art and its presentation in museums." Why is it in an art museum?"

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Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2008

My more complete thoughts and reactions to the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference are forthcoming in a longer post soon. Today, I want to share slide presentations and interviews you might be seeking related to the sessions I chaired this week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 9) Movie screenings. 7) Shopping.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

He notes that film, music, visual art, and literature have evolved as media that are used in all kinds of environments, from the mundane to the profound. Ian comments: Very few video games set out to tackle mundane applications akin to the home movie or the airplane safety video. And really, is it very surprising?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

Heck, sign me up for a ticket to the zombie museum. But when I took off my “entertainment” glasses and put on my museum eyes, my reaction wasn’t amusement. I imagined museum folks reading the article and snapping the paper closed with smug smiles on their faces: "See. It was distaste. This is why we have to avoid Disneyfication."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

But this week, I got the opportunity to interview Jason Nelson, creator of digital art and avant garde game wonder game, game, game, and again game and how could I resist? Jason Nelson is a lecturer in cyberstudies/digital art/digital creative writing at Griffith University in Queensland, AU. just won an Italian art award.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

As cultural institutions, we are a “field” competing against “industries”—gaming, movie, TV, and amusement—that have the money to spend on weapons of mass audience engagement. As programmers of events and performances, collectors of things, and producers of content, our main business seems to be a battle for the attention of our audiences.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2015

People who go to midnight movies. Or art-lovers of Brooklyn. A community by AFFINITY is defined by what we like. It is made up of people who end the sentence "I like __" or "I do " in the same way. Some affinities are lifelong passions. Others are passing fancies. These types aren't perfectly distinct.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games. Where am I?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If there are candy-making classes in your area, a gift certificate will come in handy for beginners looking to master the art of sugar confections. Art Appreciation – When it comes to an art lover’s basket, don’t forget to include art appreciation opportunities. Creative individuals are often up for a challenge.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum. Ratings and Reviews Imagine a visitor who leaves your museum enthused about her experience.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Imagine this situation: You go to an arts event, one of a type you rarely or never take part in. Maybe it's a live music concert, or a museum visit, or a play. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2024, postcards with QR codes designed to make an impact (LOL funny, powerful quotes, beautiful art, photography, etc.) Ideas: Meetups for walking, hiking, stretching or yoga in the park, book clubs, book readings, discussion groups, support groups, social hours at local pubs and coffee shops, movies, museums visits, dog parks, etc.!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted.

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